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A~RENsDORF ON TRIAL.
Continue ton ef the Testi-
mony In Behalf af the
Defence.
Several Interesting Witnesses Offer
ed by the Defendants Attorneys.

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Several Interesting Witnesses Offer /.
ed blythe Defendants Attorneys. |
The following evidence for the defence,
rs from the report Of the Rsddock muir
der trial published in the Sioux City
Journaleof the 9th: h
The FIRST witness called by the defense
yesterday morning was j. M. Simonson,
ex-saloonkeeper who called to order the
gathering Of saloonkeepers in Holden
reid's hall the night before the muir
der Of Haddo0k.
!. VI. sIMoNsoE.
u live il Sioux City, On West Third
street. and I have lived here two years,
/ am in no business at the present. In
August last l Wac porprietor Of the
"Chloago, saloon on Fourth street
bet een Douglas and Pierce, three doors
east OF the s'Shepherd" saloon. / knew
n. l.. Leavitt. / was in Holdenreid's
hall on the nigh. OF August 2 last. There
was q meeting there. ! can't say how
long the meeting was in Hession.
remained there not to exceed ten minutes.
When / left the meeting / went to my
saloon. I called the. meeting TO order
that night to tell the saloonkeeders that
it was q shame that they did not come
, up to the court house. Tor the temper
ance people were coming out In large
WAS no private meeting at Hoidenreid,s
hall that night. There was nothing said
about doing up Wood and Walker that
night. There was In my presence that
night no talk OF that nature. The meet.
ing was called because Matt Gay said
that saloonkeepers ought to come up TO
the courthouse. LeAvitt said, Yes, II is
a shame that ssl0okeepers OF Sioux City
are suckers. I live In L~eavenworth, but
they cant enforce the prohibitory law
there. The saloonkeers in L~eavenworth
have lawyers who know something"
Decentralization by the state:
when Ioame to Sioux City 4 went into
thasBaloon business, and staid in the
business till last July. I lived in Phila-
delphia before coming TO Sioux City. /
lived in Waterloo, lows, and then went
to Warsaw, Wis, In both OF which places
I WAS in the saloon business. I think I
went to Philadelphia IN 1884. Before !
went to Waterloo / lived in Nashua,
Iowa. There I was in the merchant
tailor business. There was no saloon
keepers organization in Sioux City.
Tha saloonkeepers met several times in
Holdenreid's hall. I can't say how
many times they met. I don't know
who was president. I don't think Adel.
sheim was called to the chair. I didn't
call him to the chair. I donSs. know
whether any motions were offered in
the meeting. I don't know whether
IN rssfrs hbssif06TT55s tshS 60fun6F o iufy thai hdot
sheim swaa in the chair. l don't know
whether I swore before the coroner
Jury that Munchrath and I had been Rp'
pointed as a committee before that night
was trying q :teil the facts to the cor
oner's jury about the meeting shat night
Mnnchrath and / had been out collect,
ing money. There was previously q meet
ing over Warlichia saloon--a meeting o
saloonkeepers. There was another Q
Turner ball. There were three meetings ii
Holdenxaidss hall. Adeleheisn was tem
n6rary chairman Wariichs secretary AM
junk was treasurer. / was speaking
little while ago about the meeting OF
the I'd OF August. There was 9 gather
ing that night. This was for the pur
pose of organizing = saloonkeeper
union. 4 don't remember who vas act
ING ass treasurer &C the meeting of Aug
W Ao AAs AEON0 tAoN0 oO0A shS0
twelve to twenty HaloonkeepeSs present
I notified the Halponkeepers to come d
that evening. I cslled the meeting {
order. I did MOI say n word about th
witness that evening. / did not stay til
the rneeting was over Perhaps | test
fed before the %coroner's jnry that
stayed there till the meeting adjourned
L can't say whether / did stay or not Til
the meeting was out. I don't know no,
long L staid. I don't remember whethe
went into Holdenreid's bar that nigh
after; the meeting. l don't remembe
whether I went to the Shepherd saloon
/ think I went fromthe meeting straiGi
to nv saloon. I have no recoliectio
what / did or where I went after til
meeting. ] don't know whether any {
the saloonkeepers went with me an
drank in my saloon. I don't know whs
/ 1said IN Ahe meeting. I don't kno
whether T saw Adelsheim ID the.chair. /
that meeting. / don't know whether
saw anybody lnsthe chair. don't thin
the meeting was in session long. l dor
know whether the meeting remained
session five or ten or fifteen minutes, (
any other number OF minutes. / hay
no idea.
DISCRIMINATION by thu defense: The
was no organization of the s~aloonkeepel
formed. Taere were some prelimina,
meetings. These meetings were called I,
the purpose OF seeing il we could for
an organization. I did not attend an
private meeting that night. Ibid NJ
see any.
Julius LEIBERToN.
/ lived IN Sioux City laet August, an
roomed at the engine house Oh Wats
street, between Third and Fourth street
L did not belong &c the fire compan
but Was stopping with some OF the fix
boyG. The engine-houSe 10 half q blot
from tho Columbia house. The engin
house is on the same side With Il
Columbia. was sittingi in the Windo
on the north side OF the engine-hone
up stairs, at the time the shot was fire
on August 3-the shot, / mean, tbI
killed Mr.. Haddock.
Witness was shown a plat of til
building and marked with q pencil IL
position he had at the window the nigl
Of August Z.
Witness continuing: The window
- sssrth side of the ~engine.houI
near 1.hS east cad. I whs facing ca
and looking in the directioI Of the corn'
of Fourth and Water streets, aud go
the man who fred the shot. The ma
g who fred the shot was about tw.
thirds across Water street ar
the mHH who was shot was about or
foot in front Of him. The man wnoffe
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